Short: Sorts unique words in texts after frequency Author: blodskam@hotmail.com (Erik Spåre) Uploader: blodskam hotmail com (Erik Spåre) Type: text/misc Version: 1.3 Requires: OS 2.04 or above Architecture: m68k-amigaos ********************************************************************** * TextInfo 1.3 by Erik Spåre (Parsec/Phuture 303) 990107 * * Filematching routines by Anders Vedmar (Axehandle) * ********************************************************************** TextInfo's task is to count all the various _unique_ words in texts and list them. "Mine your mine" = 3 words, 2 unique (mine, your). Read. If you find the following facts interesting, then this may be a program for you. ! Two Cities by Dickens has almost twice as many unique words as the Koran, despite the fact that the Koran is bigger. (Two Cities 8041/138384, Koran 4300/152164). Plato's the Republic (translated, as the Koran) has 45 % more (6199/127005). ! Moby Dick has 13403/213486 words; that is 27 % more than the Bible's 10560/812394, even though Moby Dick's size is only about one quarter of the Bible's! ! A friend (greetings Théonore) told me that he had heard that there was a word in the Bible that occured 666 times, and it was the name of the Beast. There is no such word in King James Bible... ! You need only to know the meaning of 48 words to understand half of the words written in the Bible... (37 in the Koran, 44 in the Republic, 64 in Two Cities and 87 in Moby Dick). REQUIREMENTS OS 2.04+ and a mind that is more interested in how many grains of sand the average beach contains, than the latest sport results or soap operas. HISTORY v1.3 (990107) ** When I wanted to include the output in an email, the mailer of course couldn't handle the tabs. I tried to circumvent this by specifying -t32,1, hoping that TextInfo would make the output 32 characters wide... but when it didn't work I vaguely remembered being too lazy to accept more tabs than 9 (one digit only) and so I fixed this and made sure that spaces are printed instead of tabs, if the tabsize is set to 1. This is all for this release, still no request for more features. Perhaps the program is perfect now? :)